Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "Once home, they are supported by Virtua Health's nurses, who manage population healthcare outreach, as well as physician-led telehealth visits over the course of two weeks to help guide the patient on the road to wellness.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2025

The organization is offering home-delivered nutritious meals after a hospital or skilled nursing facility admission. Virtual care options for nonemergency urgent care, behavioral health, dermatology and speech therapy is another offering members will be able to access this year. The offering includes 14 meals.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Many of our patients struggle with transportation issues, whether it is available or accessible public transportation or physical disabilities that make a trip to the doctor's office difficult," Stone said. This has leveled off, with approximately 10% to 25% of all visits remaining virtual, depending on the specialty.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today. With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., It’s important to note that these reviews aren’t limited to primary care physicians.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

"For example, a patient would be in their living room and ping the doctor to let them know they have a specific condition they are concerned about, and they're wondering what should they do about it?" Patients can do this from their living room, as opposed to driving to urgent care or the emergency department.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD provides services for big tech giants like Amazon and for small primary and urgent care healthcare provider organizations. Through the Amazon app or on the Clinic page, their customers can choose SteadyMD’s licensed doctors and nurse practitioners to address more than 30 common health concerns.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. The post The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Instead, we should take a step back and think about how we can better support doctors in delivering high-quality care. For example, these tools can help patients navigate to the right care, engage more effectively in their interactions with clinicians, and better manage their health, lifestyle, and treatments.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

Craig Kwiatkowski is chief information officer at Cedars-Sinai, leading the teams putting together the AI that is designed to improve care and help patients and providers. In today's interview, we talk with Kwiatkowski, who holds a pharmacy doctorate, about some of the AI tools being used at the health system.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Quality of care is equal to, if not greater than, the care provided in a traditional brick-and-mortar setting. Providers are often able to spend more time with patients and provide dedicated one-to-one, personalized attention and care. Digital front doors can provide one single entry point and experience for the patient.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

There are more than 16,000 direct primary care practices in the U.S., and the leading benefits associated with this model include quicker access to appointments, because the PCPs often carry smaller patient panels and lower costs compared with other care-on-demand settings like urgent care or the emergency room.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

Louis-based, concierge primary care practice that uses connected digital devices and an advanced video platform to bring doctors remotely to its CloudClinics today announced it has closed its oversubscribed $2.5M Rezilient membership gives patients access to same-day appointments at any CloudClinic and 24/7 virtual care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

During the last 50 years, we have built a health care system focused on facilities, primarily bringing patients to these locations to receive the care they need. Many see the home as an opportunity to create the seamless care continuum that is often discussed, though the current health care system is highly fragmented.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The providers are available for phone or video primary care visits six days a week. They can write prescriptions and refer members to in-person care, when necessary. The doctors are part of a virtual care team that includes a registered nurse and a medical assistant. HCSC Virtual Primary Care Features.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lee Aase: And our, and this is in in collaboration with a high school classmate of mine who's a primary care, doctor. Lee Aase: We had the idea of creating a direct primary care clinic in Austin, Minnesota, which is our hometown. And hospitals notoriously conservative and doctors far more so. Lee Aase: Yeah.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Other features in the Lively Flip are: 24 x 7 access to the GreatCall Urgent Response call center. Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. The GreatCall link app for family caregivers. A reading magnifier with an LED flashlight. Brain Games by Posit Science, among other apps and tools.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

What began as an explosion of patent demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection surges that continue to test the resiliency of the healthcare system to this day. It’s precisely what the doctor ordered. About Greg Kefer.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

Subha Airan Javia, MD, FAMIA Jackson Steinkamp, MD Electronic medical records (EMRs) – software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data – are fundamentally broken. Doesn’t it make sense that if information stays the same over time, you should re-document it?

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

On the first pillar of access, some tactics are better utilized than others to expand accessible touchpoints: urgent care centers and freestanding imaging sites are more widely available to consumers compared with video and e-visits (telehealth) services. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

The program is the latest development for the rapidly growing in-home care provider, which specializes in treating higher-acuity patients. Founded toward the end of 2018, Plano, Texas-based Resilient provides hospital-at-home, SNF-at-home and traditional home health care services. That was all we could have.

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Health Dialog

MAY 15, 2016

Some organizations see nurse line services as a simple routine requirement and offer a basic helpline. However, a well-thought-out nurse line can be a powerful resource and bring greater success to population health management efforts. Effective Promotion of the Service to Members. Seamless Integration of Existing Resources.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Patients want more convenience when they visit their doctors’ offices, and many physicians agree. The Benefits of Online Appointment Scheduling for Doctors. There are several benefits to offering online scheduling for doctor’s appointments.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2024

By enabling clinicians to resolve more health concerns directly at the school, it reduces the need for in-office doctor visits, which often lead to student absenteeism and impose time and resource burdens on parents. In schools, the Pro Smart Clinic significantly enhances on-site health services. McElligott M.D.,

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – New data from Carta Healthcare shows 83% of patients have had to provide the same health information or duplicate health information at a doctor’s office. 42% of Americans spend six minutes or more recounting past medical history at their doctor’s appointments due to a lack of integrated data processes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level. Some come from external providers such as urgent care clinics or telehealth services. delivery and technology infrastructure.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Its core offering is Clinic@Home, which helps facilitate health care services in patients’ homes. Clinic@Home helps patients with medication reminders, vitals monitoring and access to both doctors and nurses. The company is currently focused on Medicaid patients that are eligible for home-based care services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

” The video is a virtual tour of a Kroger grocery store featuring a dozen of the company’s 23,000 healthcare employees: a pharmacist, a pharmacy tech, a nutritionist, a nurse practitioner, and even a produce representative advising a shopper on the health benefits of fruit. Kroger is taking a page right from the 2019 U.S.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

They are connected to a 24/7 nurse station that is out of our command center.”. The organization includes 16 hospitals, 11 ambulatory surgery centers, four off-campus emergency rooms and CareNow Urgent Care clinics. Medical City Healthcare’s team includes roughly 5,000 physicians, 6,000 nurses and 17,000 employees.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Programs like behavioral health urgent cares, long-acting injectables clinics, and centers focused on maternal mental health create accessible, welcoming environments for patients to receive the treatment they need, allowing them to focus on things outside of their illness, such as their family relationships, advancing their careers, and more. .

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical partner to launch vrClinicals for Nursing. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B

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Health Dialog

AUGUST 6, 2012

There once was a time when if you got sick, you’d call the family doctor. The doctor would take care of you quickly and coordinate any additional care that you needed. In those days, your family doctor was a “home base” for all your medical needs. . It’s a new way to organize how a primary care office works.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patients realized that for many of their healthcare needs, they didn’t need to sit in a waiting room or try to find transportation only to have a five-minute interaction with a doctor or nurse. If they have phone and internet access, they can conveniently access care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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